Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His endorsement of perestroika will be music as sweet in the ears of Mr Gorbachev and his supporters , as the brilliant notes everyone confidently expects to hear from him . |
| 2 | There is bound always to be a considerable vested interest in the status quo , particularly amongst the most entrenched and powerful individuals in any institution : the way things are generally suits them well enough . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 4 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 5 | They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’ |
| 6 | The only blokes I like is Chris Tarrant he 's quite good . |
| 7 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 8 | Many opinions I formerly entertained are now given up & probably many of my present opinions will share the same fate — I wish them to be closely and fully ( as I know they will fairly ) examined without any regard to the author & therefore I can not by my presence aid your cause . |
| 9 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 10 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |
| 11 | I now bring before you all the attitudes I now realise to be wrong . |
| 12 | With George 's anarchic tendencies I often wondered why he ever chose to work in such a highly structured and formal setting as the organisation . |
| 13 | Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space . |
| 14 | In these cases I either have to wait for a passing walker and ask for assistance , try to reverse my direction or take the plunge and risk damage to chair and body . |
| 15 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 16 | whose secrets I alone could read , |
| 17 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 18 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 19 | During those long and enjoyable hours I slowly became an ornithologist . |
| 20 | how the , she expects to get her A level exams I just do n't know . |
| 21 | Q Although I 'd love to fill my home with baskets of potpourri , ornaments , vases , dried-flower arrangements and all the accessories I often read about in Ideal Home , my problem is the children . |
| 22 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 23 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 24 | When I fought my way up the brae and saw all the council houses I almost turned back dismissing the possibility of there being any evidence of older architecture . |
| 25 | The artists I greatly admire are within that tradition , like Grunewaldt , Goya and Gericault . |
| 26 | The artists I greatly admire are within that tradition , like Grunewaldt , Goya and Gericault . |
| 27 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 28 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 29 | I said I 've been out here for about twenty minutes I better go back in . |
| 30 | Just this , tidying up about ten minutes I always fill the house up with junk ! |